Starling Game Development Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Starling Game Development Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Our Capture the Flag Game -- Understanding a game -- Introducing the game loop and game states -- Game state -- Game loop -- Flash's inherent game loop -- Capture the Flag -- The game idea -- Rules of the game -- The tile-based approach -- An array-based implementation of a level -- Relationship between screen space and level array -- Prerequisites for using the shared code -- Creating a top-down game scene -- Applying the RenderTexture approach -- Tools of the trade -- Summary -- 2. Going Isometric -- What is an isometric view? -- Cartesian to isometric equations -- An isometric view via a matrix transformation -- Implementing the isometric view via isometric art -- Level data structure -- Altering registration points -- Depth sorting -- Understanding isometric movement -- Detecting isometric collision -- Summary -- 3. Isometric-level Designer -- The approach for creating our level designer -- Befriending Feathers UI -- Creating an isometric grid with the Starling graphics extension -- Developing a designer app -- Loading files recursively -- Displaying tiles -- Painting the level -- Saving the level -- Editing registration points -- Summary -- 4. Just Finding Your Way -- The Flag Defense game level -- Game settings -- The support classes used -- Faster drawing for RenderTextures.

The CustomAnimatedItem class -- The CustomIsometricCharacter class -- Time-based animation versus frame-based animation -- Depth sorting issues -- Implementing the game level -- The game states -- The touch listener -- Following the AI path -- Path finding -- Making AI decision -- Summary -- 5. Boom Boom, Explosions! -- Adding some effects -- An image-based explosion -- Particle systems -- Creating the explosion using the Particle Editor tool -- Adding smoke -- Adding the explosion to the stage -- Summary -- 6. Going Cross Platform -- The finished game -- The MainLevel game loop -- AiManager -- Making the AI decisions -- Cross platform -- Supporting multiple screens -- Dynamic Texture Atlas Creator -- Finding the ScaleRatio value -- Positioning items properly -- Essential tips and tricks -- Device-specific changes -- QuadBatch to the rescue -- Handling touch input -- iOS specifics -- Android specifics -- The Android back button -- Saving data locally -- AdMob ANE integration -- Publishing to the app stores -- Apple App Store -- Google Play -- Summary -- 7. Flox - Leaderboards, Analytics, and More -- Understanding Flox -- Getting started with Flox -- Flox game analytics -- Tracking the events -- The Flox leaderboard -- User tracking -- The Flox entities -- Loading the entities -- Using queries for entities -- The Flox operations -- Summary -- Index.